Horseshoe.



H; T. BACON.

HORSESHOB.

APPLICATION TILED HARM, 1909. 950,426. Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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HER-BERT T. BACON, OF BRIGHTON. COLORADO.

HORSESI-IOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 19110.

Application filed March 24. 1909. Serial No. 485,478.

To all whom it may concern:

lle it known that I, llnnmnrr T. lliujbx, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Brighton, in the county of Adams and State ofColorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHorseshoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in liorseshoes, and one of itsobjects is to provide a nailless shoe which may be readily attached anddetached from a horses hoof and which is provided with means foradjusting the shoe to different sizes of hooit's.

Another object is to provide a shoe with detachable tread portionswhereby the tread may be removed for replacing one form, such as asmooth shod, by another form, such as a rough shod member, or forreplacing a worn section by a new section.

With these objects in View the invention consists in the constructionand combinations of parts as hereinafter described and claimed, and asillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like letters designatethe same parts in the same views, and in which Figure l is a top planview of the improved shoe locked in its contracted position. Fig. 2 isan underneath plan view in the same position. Fig. 3 is a fragmentarytop plan View of the rear part ot a pair of pivoted clamping members,which carry the tread portions, and showing these clamping membersspread apart at their rear ends. Fig. t is a cross section on the line-tl of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 5 a.cross section on the line 55 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of thearrows, and Fig. b is a perspective view of the locking lever.

The horseshoe proper consists of two similarly shaped separated halvesor segments a and b forming the tread portion of the shoe and beingprovided with suitable calks. In the drawings, each segment shown ashaving the shoe heel calk c, and while each segment may contain a halfof the toe calk, in the drawings one of said segments is simply shown asbeing provided with a toe calk (1 formed integral therewith, as shown inFig. 5, a portion of the toe calk projecting longitudinally beyond theend of its integral member and bridging the space between the adjoiningends of said segments, the projecting portion resting beneath the end ofthe opposed segment.

.ibove the parts a and I), and 01 similar contour to said parts, are thearcshaped pieces 6 and f, the front ends of which are recessed andoverlap each other, as shown in Figs 1 and 5, being pivotally connectedby a rivet 1 Each of the clamping members c and is provided with aplurality of inwardly curving and upwardly extending clamping ears /1,roughened on their inside times like a rasp so that the projectingpoints 7' embed themselves in the horses hoot, when the shoe is closedaround the hoof and is secured firmly thereto.

y is an inwardly and for ardly extending projection formed integral withthe member f, and the member (1 is similarly provided with an inwardlyand forwardly extending projection l-, which latter is bent upwardly to"form an otlset, as shown in l igwl. An elongated {lat link 21 ispivotally connected to the projection y' by the pivot pin m, the link abeing provided with a series of holes 0.

7) is a locking lever provided with holes and q and a. downwardlyprojecting thumb piece This lever is pivotally connected to theprojection X: by the pivot screw 8, and is also pivotally connected ontop of the link )2- by means of the pivot screw 2, the pivoted end ofthe lever being disposed beneath the o'tl'set of the projection andabove the link a.

it will be noted that the pivot screw 5 securing the lever to theprojection 7': passes through the hole (I of the lever, and that thepivot screw t securing the lever to the link it passes through the holeq of the lever,- so that this pivot t is eccentrically disposedrelatively to the pivot. s. it will also be observed that theri areseveral of the holes 0 in the link 21 so that the pivot screw t may bepassed through any one of these holes and thus provide for theadjustment of the shoe to different sizes of hoofs. lt will be observedfrom Fig. 2 that the tread portions a and b are two separate members,and may be secured to the underneath face of the clamping members f andc in any suitable way, designated in the drawings by the screws 1:.

In the position shown in Fig. 3 the shoe is ready to be placed on thehorses hoof.

